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Four calls so far this week from Sirius XM asking why I haven't
initialized my three month trial. "Because I'm not interested, that's why." This is a big time FM radio market, with lots of commercial free stations, including some that play the music I prefer, and if I hit the road for a trip out of this market, I, like everyone else, have a portable device that holds many gigs of the music I like. |
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I took the three months and they harassed me for a bit and then yearly to sign up. I usually get a 3 week free trial in June but the dummies don't notify me until a week is already gone. Anyway, after told them I really only spend any time in the Highlander for 6 months of the year and that's all I'd pay for, they now leave me alone.
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:52:44 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote: Four calls so far this week from Sirius XM asking why I haven't initialized my three month trial. "Because I'm not interested, that's why." This is a big time FM radio market, with lots of commercial free stations, including some that play the music I prefer, and if I hit the road for a trip out of this market, I, like everyone else, have a portable device that holds many gigs of the music I like. I haven't listened to the radio in about 16-17 years. I do get XM/S bundled in with my satellite TV package and we turn it on occasionally. BTW what stations in DC are commercial free? NPR? |
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 09:03:50 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote: I took the three months and they harassed me for a bit and then yearly to sign up. I usually get a 3 week free trial in June but the dummies don't notify me until a week is already gone. Anyway, after told them I really only spend any time in the Highlander for 6 months of the year and that's all I'd pay for, they now leave me alone. My wife will take the promo offer and then she cancels when the rate goes up. We are "off" now and I get a solicitation in the mail about once a week. When they make her an offer she can't refuse she will turn it on again I imagine. She does use I-Heart radio on her phone and blue tooths it up to the sound system in the car. I am just an MP3 guy. The Blaupunct in the Honda will read a SD card, a thumb stick and a "data" CD/DVD so I have 3 different play lists selectable at the push of a button. |
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:45:52 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote: On 4/23/16 12:31 PM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:52:44 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: Four calls so far this week from Sirius XM asking why I haven't initialized my three month trial. "Because I'm not interested, that's why." This is a big time FM radio market, with lots of commercial free stations, including some that play the music I prefer, and if I hit the road for a trip out of this market, I, like everyone else, have a portable device that holds many gigs of the music I like. I haven't listened to the radio in about 16-17 years. I do get XM/S bundled in with my satellite TV package and we turn it on occasionally. BTW what stations in DC are commercial free? NPR? WAMU, WETA, and a station out of Bal'mer are the ones I listen to... WETA must have upped their power if you are getting it in Calvert County. When I was there they were one of the stations you only got well at night. Part of the problem here is there is not much on the radio. 34 years ago when we were scouting out the area, driving down from St Pete, Judy said "what happened to the radio" because it pretty much stopped when we went by Venice. They don't seem to have a lot of power. We used to have a couple of good local talk shows and the music stations were all local. About 25-30 years ago the PC based radio station started and now it all seems to be coming in on a national feed. We had a radio station ("The Gator") in the same building as our IBM office and I got to know the manager fairly well. One day he took me up there to show me his new, favorite "DJ". It was an IBM PC/AT, sitting there humming away. They still have a few local personalities but the music is usually preprogrammed and all the DJs do is a little filler between songs and read the local spots. Most of that is pre recorded too. The commercials are oppressive. I really liked overnight radio in DC in the 70s tho. They couldn't give away the ad time so it ran petty much commercial free and the personalities actually had a little personality. I used to set the timer on my 8 track recorder and record 0200-0330 on tape to play later. It was pretty easy to forget you were listening to a tape because it was the whole feed. I got my niece bad one day when we were driving around in Florida and the weather was calling for snow. |
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On 4/23/2016 1:55 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/23/16 1:15 PM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:45:52 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/23/16 12:31 PM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:52:44 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: Four calls so far this week from Sirius XM asking why I haven't initialized my three month trial. "Because I'm not interested, that's why." This is a big time FM radio market, with lots of commercial free stations, including some that play the music I prefer, and if I hit the road for a trip out of this market, I, like everyone else, have a portable device that holds many gigs of the music I like. I haven't listened to the radio in about 16-17 years. I do get XM/S bundled in with my satellite TV package and we turn it on occasionally. BTW what stations in DC are commercial free? NPR? WAMU, WETA, and a station out of Bal'mer are the ones I listen to... WETA must have upped their power if you are getting it in Calvert County. When I was there they were one of the stations you only got well at night. WETA took over WGMS and another station and uses three broadcast towers now, and, of course, it is "internet-able." I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology. |
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Mr. Luddite
- show quoted text - "I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. *Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. * I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. * Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology." I don't think there is a single am station left around here. |
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On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/23/2016 1:55 PM, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/23/16 1:15 PM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:45:52 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/23/16 12:31 PM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:52:44 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: Four calls so far this week from Sirius XM asking why I haven't initialized my three month trial. "Because I'm not interested, that's why." This is a big time FM radio market, with lots of commercial free stations, including some that play the music I prefer, and if I hit the road for a trip out of this market, I, like everyone else, have a portable device that holds many gigs of the music I like. I haven't listened to the radio in about 16-17 years. I do get XM/S bundled in with my satellite TV package and we turn it on occasionally. BTW what stations in DC are commercial free? NPR? WAMU, WETA, and a station out of Bal'mer are the ones I listen to... WETA must have upped their power if you are getting it in Calvert County. When I was there they were one of the stations you only got well at night. WETA took over WGMS and another station and uses three broadcast towers now, and, of course, it is "internet-able." I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology. I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or 11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews. After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again. I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the emails asking about internet programming. Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories. Mikek |
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On 4/23/2016 5:05 PM, amdx wrote:
On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/23/2016 1:55 PM, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/23/16 1:15 PM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:45:52 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/23/16 12:31 PM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:52:44 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: Four calls so far this week from Sirius XM asking why I haven't initialized my three month trial. "Because I'm not interested, that's why." This is a big time FM radio market, with lots of commercial free stations, including some that play the music I prefer, and if I hit the road for a trip out of this market, I, like everyone else, have a portable device that holds many gigs of the music I like. I haven't listened to the radio in about 16-17 years. I do get XM/S bundled in with my satellite TV package and we turn it on occasionally. BTW what stations in DC are commercial free? NPR? WAMU, WETA, and a station out of Bal'mer are the ones I listen to... WETA must have upped their power if you are getting it in Calvert County. When I was there they were one of the stations you only got well at night. WETA took over WGMS and another station and uses three broadcast towers now, and, of course, it is "internet-able." I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology. I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or 11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews. After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again. I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the emails asking about internet programming. Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories. Mikek Larry Glick was really funny. He used to make a lot of those calls to payphones all over the country. Dick Summer also had a great show with "Irving" the Venus Flytrap. |
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On 4/23/16 5:05 PM, amdx wrote:
On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/23/2016 1:55 PM, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/23/16 1:15 PM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:45:52 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/23/16 12:31 PM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:52:44 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: Four calls so far this week from Sirius XM asking why I haven't initialized my three month trial. "Because I'm not interested, that's why." This is a big time FM radio market, with lots of commercial free stations, including some that play the music I prefer, and if I hit the road for a trip out of this market, I, like everyone else, have a portable device that holds many gigs of the music I like. I haven't listened to the radio in about 16-17 years. I do get XM/S bundled in with my satellite TV package and we turn it on occasionally. BTW what stations in DC are commercial free? NPR? WAMU, WETA, and a station out of Bal'mer are the ones I listen to... WETA must have upped their power if you are getting it in Calvert County. When I was there they were one of the stations you only got well at night. WETA took over WGMS and another station and uses three broadcast towers now, and, of course, it is "internet-able." I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology. I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or 11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews. After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again. I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the emails asking about internet programming. Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories. Mikek I listened to Jean Shepherd at night, coming over on a NYC station. WOR? |
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:05:49 -0500, amdx wrote:
On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology. I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or 11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews. After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again. I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the emails asking about internet programming. Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories. Mikek When I was in DC we went the other way and listened to Dick Biondi on WLS in Chicago. A good super het radio connected to a 100' antenna locked it in like it was local at night. We used to have one good AM talk station here that was all local during the day and went to syndicated shows like Dr Dean and that travel/money guy. The local show was good because it was mostly local stuff and they got the real guys on. I called in one day, talked to the Lee County DOT director and got the light at the end of my street retimed within a week. That was also where we heard the real story about James Billie (indian chief and casino manager) and the panther he killed. We also heard the real story about Reahart and his fight with Lee County that made it all the way to the steps of the SCOTUS who let his ruling stand (the government has to pay if they rezone your property) Both of them just quietly went away in the news. Rush Limbaugh killed local talk. He started giving his show away and it was cheaper than paying local people for a bigger audience. I looked and we have 16 AM stations that you might be able to hear. Half are spanish, 1 adult contemporary, 1 country, 2 news and the rest are sports talk. |
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On 4/24/2016 12:12 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:05:49 -0500, amdx wrote: On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology. I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or 11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews. After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again. I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the emails asking about internet programming. Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories. Mikek When I was in DC we went the other way and listened to Dick Biondi on WLS in Chicago. A good super het radio connected to a 100' antenna locked it in like it was local at night. We used to have one good AM talk station here that was all local during the day and went to syndicated shows like Dr Dean and that travel/money guy. I was a regular listener of Dr. Dean, I think he's out there making the best out of his retirement time. Looks like he sold his art collection in 2007. http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/s...&viewType=list the rest are sports talk. I might watch an occasional football game or an MMA fight, but for me sports talk is a waste of KWHs of electricity. A 50KWH station can be $150 a day for electricity. BTW, don't tell Keysor, but I'm a regular NPR listener. Some of the 'This American Life' stories are great, 'A Prairie Home Companion' is good for Guy Noir and a few other parts. I like the weekend stuff also, Wait, Wait don't tell me, A Way with Words, Ted hour, Oh and Car Talk even though it's all reruns. Click and Clack are hilarious and thoroughly enjoy themselves. I also listen to Bob Brinker on Sunday afternoon on a local station, for investment information. He got me out of the stock market on Feb 11 2000 before a 45% plunge. Funny it looks like a tiny dip in the chart now, but not back then. http://tinyurl.com/jh8vyd4 He missed calling the 2007 drop, but recently, Feb 10th sent a special alert saying time to put new money in the market. Good call, at least for the last 2-1/2 months. Mikek Mikek Mikek |
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:58:30 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 4/24/2016 1:12 AM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:05:49 -0500, amdx wrote: On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology. I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or 11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews. After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again. I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the emails asking about internet programming. Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories. Mikek When I was in DC we went the other way and listened to Dick Biondi on WLS in Chicago. A good super het radio connected to a 100' antenna locked it in like it was local at night. We used to have one good AM talk station here that was all local during the day and went to syndicated shows like Dr Dean and that travel/money guy. The local show was good because it was mostly local stuff and they got the real guys on. I called in one day, talked to the Lee County DOT director and got the light at the end of my street retimed within a week. That was also where we heard the real story about James Billie (indian chief and casino manager) and the panther he killed. We also heard the real story about Reahart and his fight with Lee County that made it all the way to the steps of the SCOTUS who let his ruling stand (the government has to pay if they rezone your property) Both of them just quietly went away in the news. Rush Limbaugh killed local talk. He started giving his show away and it was cheaper than paying local people for a bigger audience. I looked and we have 16 AM stations that you might be able to hear. Half are spanish, 1 adult contemporary, 1 country, 2 news and the rest are sports talk. WBZ is one of the "clear channel" stations meaning there are very few other AM stations that broadcast near WBZ's frequency assignment. Last I knew it was a 50,000 watt station and at night it's signal is listenable over a good part of the country, especially the mid-west. I have a friend who occasionally co-hosts a call-in talk show on WBZ that runs from midnight to 5 am. She gets calls from listeners from Minnesota, Colorado and other states across the nation. Yup, when we were doing "AM DXing" there were 3 or 4 far away stations we could get at night if the atmospherics were right. I have picked up WLS on I-95 in the Carolinas while I was on my way to Florida. It is weird because it will pop up as clear as a bell and a while later it just fades away. The old Childrens Band worked that way too. Occasionally you would hear someone from 1000 miles away but they just came and went. Whether you could actually respond was another thing. (although it was technically illegal to do so) |
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Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/24/2016 1:12 AM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:05:49 -0500, amdx wrote: On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology. I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or 11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews. After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again. I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the emails asking about internet programming. Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories. Mikek When I was in DC we went the other way and listened to Dick Biondi on WLS in Chicago. A good super het radio connected to a 100' antenna locked it in like it was local at night. We used to have one good AM talk station here that was all local during the day and went to syndicated shows like Dr Dean and that travel/money guy. The local show was good because it was mostly local stuff and they got the real guys on. I called in one day, talked to the Lee County DOT director and got the light at the end of my street retimed within a week. That was also where we heard the real story about James Billie (indian chief and casino manager) and the panther he killed. We also heard the real story about Reahart and his fight with Lee County that made it all the way to the steps of the SCOTUS who let his ruling stand (the government has to pay if they rezone your property) Both of them just quietly went away in the news. Rush Limbaugh killed local talk. He started giving his show away and it was cheaper than paying local people for a bigger audience. I looked and we have 16 AM stations that you might be able to hear. Half are spanish, 1 adult contemporary, 1 country, 2 news and the rest are sports talk. WBZ is one of the "clear channel" stations meaning there are very few other AM stations that broadcast near WBZ's frequency assignment. Last I knew it was a 50,000 watt station and at night it's signal is listenable over a good part of the country, especially the mid-west. I have a friend who occasionally co-hosts a call-in talk show on WBZ that runs from midnight to 5 am. She gets calls from listeners from Minnesota, Colorado and other states across the nation. 1964 when at NCR school in Dayton, OH we listened to Wolfman Jack out of Del Rio, TX. I think the transmitter was across the border in Mexico and pumped out more than 50,000 watts. Was a great show. We still have a lot of AM stations in California. Locally KGO the liberal Moderate station is going the way of national syndicated shows. The same company also owns KSFO which is the conservative talk radio station, and has been mostly national shows for a long time. We do not get it locally as is not an Internet station, but the Central Valley has an FM station that plays all 40-50-60-70 music with little advertising. |
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wrote:
On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:58:30 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 4/24/2016 1:12 AM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:05:49 -0500, amdx wrote: On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology. I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or 11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews. After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again. I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the emails asking about internet programming. Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories. Mikek When I was in DC we went the other way and listened to Dick Biondi on WLS in Chicago. A good super het radio connected to a 100' antenna locked it in like it was local at night. We used to have one good AM talk station here that was all local during the day and went to syndicated shows like Dr Dean and that travel/money guy. The local show was good because it was mostly local stuff and they got the real guys on. I called in one day, talked to the Lee County DOT director and got the light at the end of my street retimed within a week. That was also where we heard the real story about James Billie (indian chief and casino manager) and the panther he killed. We also heard the real story about Reahart and his fight with Lee County that made it all the way to the steps of the SCOTUS who let his ruling stand (the government has to pay if they rezone your property) Both of them just quietly went away in the news. Rush Limbaugh killed local talk. He started giving his show away and it was cheaper than paying local people for a bigger audience. I looked and we have 16 AM stations that you might be able to hear. Half are spanish, 1 adult contemporary, 1 country, 2 news and the rest are sports talk. WBZ is one of the "clear channel" stations meaning there are very few other AM stations that broadcast near WBZ's frequency assignment. Last I knew it was a 50,000 watt station and at night it's signal is listenable over a good part of the country, especially the mid-west. I have a friend who occasionally co-hosts a call-in talk show on WBZ that runs from midnight to 5 am. She gets calls from listeners from Minnesota, Colorado and other states across the nation. Yup, when we were doing "AM DXing" there were 3 or 4 far away stations we could get at night if the atmospherics were right. I have picked up WLS on I-95 in the Carolinas while I was on my way to Florida. It is weird because it will pop up as clear as a bell and a while later it just fades away. The old Childrens Band worked that way too. Occasionally you would hear someone from 1000 miles away but they just came and went. Whether you could actually respond was another thing. (although it was technically illegal to do so) Furthest away I got a station is when I was returning home from Keesler AFB the radio buttons were still set from Biloxi. And going over Donner Pass, New Orleans came in clear as a bell. |
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On 4/24/2016 10:42 AM, Califbill wrote:
wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:58:30 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 4/24/2016 1:12 AM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:05:49 -0500, amdx wrote: On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology. I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or 11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews. After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again. I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the emails asking about internet programming. Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories. Mikek When I was in DC we went the other way and listened to Dick Biondi on WLS in Chicago. A good super het radio connected to a 100' antenna locked it in like it was local at night. We used to have one good AM talk station here that was all local during the day and went to syndicated shows like Dr Dean and that travel/money guy. The local show was good because it was mostly local stuff and they got the real guys on. I called in one day, talked to the Lee County DOT director and got the light at the end of my street retimed within a week. That was also where we heard the real story about James Billie (indian chief and casino manager) and the panther he killed. We also heard the real story about Reahart and his fight with Lee County that made it all the way to the steps of the SCOTUS who let his ruling stand (the government has to pay if they rezone your property) Both of them just quietly went away in the news. Rush Limbaugh killed local talk. He started giving his show away and it was cheaper than paying local people for a bigger audience. I looked and we have 16 AM stations that you might be able to hear. Half are spanish, 1 adult contemporary, 1 country, 2 news and the rest are sports talk. WBZ is one of the "clear channel" stations meaning there are very few other AM stations that broadcast near WBZ's frequency assignment. Last I knew it was a 50,000 watt station and at night it's signal is listenable over a good part of the country, especially the mid-west. I have a friend who occasionally co-hosts a call-in talk show on WBZ that runs from midnight to 5 am. She gets calls from listeners from Minnesota, Colorado and other states across the nation. Yup, when we were doing "AM DXing" there were 3 or 4 far away stations we could get at night if the atmospherics were right. I have picked up WLS on I-95 in the Carolinas while I was on my way to Florida. It is weird because it will pop up as clear as a bell and a while later it just fades away. The old Childrens Band worked that way too. Occasionally you would hear someone from 1000 miles away but they just came and went. Whether you could actually respond was another thing. (although it was technically illegal to do so) Furthest away I got a station is when I was returning home from Keesler AFB the radio buttons were still set from Biloxi. And going over Donner Pass, New Orleans came in clear as a bell. Shortly after the band was expanded to 1700kHz, there were several stations above 1600kHz. I received a 1620 station from California in Florida. It was a call in program, I should have called them, but it was 2am in the morning and I didn't want to wake the wife. Mikek |
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On Sunday, 24 April 2016 12:42:13 UTC-3, Califbill wrote:
wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:58:30 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 4/24/2016 1:12 AM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:05:49 -0500, amdx wrote: On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology. I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or 11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews. After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again. I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the emails asking about internet programming. Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories. Mikek When I was in DC we went the other way and listened to Dick Biondi on WLS in Chicago. A good super het radio connected to a 100' antenna locked it in like it was local at night. We used to have one good AM talk station here that was all local during the day and went to syndicated shows like Dr Dean and that travel/money guy. The local show was good because it was mostly local stuff and they got the real guys on. I called in one day, talked to the Lee County DOT director and got the light at the end of my street retimed within a week. That was also where we heard the real story about James Billie (indian chief and casino manager) and the panther he killed. We also heard the real story about Reahart and his fight with Lee County that made it all the way to the steps of the SCOTUS who let his ruling stand (the government has to pay if they rezone your property) Both of them just quietly went away in the news. Rush Limbaugh killed local talk. He started giving his show away and it was cheaper than paying local people for a bigger audience. I looked and we have 16 AM stations that you might be able to hear. Half are spanish, 1 adult contemporary, 1 country, 2 news and the rest are sports talk. WBZ is one of the "clear channel" stations meaning there are very few other AM stations that broadcast near WBZ's frequency assignment. Last I knew it was a 50,000 watt station and at night it's signal is listenable over a good part of the country, especially the mid-west. I have a friend who occasionally co-hosts a call-in talk show on WBZ that runs from midnight to 5 am. She gets calls from listeners from Minnesota, Colorado and other states across the nation. Yup, when we were doing "AM DXing" there were 3 or 4 far away stations we could get at night if the atmospherics were right. I have picked up WLS on I-95 in the Carolinas while I was on my way to Florida. It is weird because it will pop up as clear as a bell and a while later it just fades away. The old Childrens Band worked that way too. Occasionally you would hear someone from 1000 miles away but they just came and went. Whether you could actually respond was another thing. (although it was technically illegal to do so) Furthest away I got a station is when I was returning home from Keesler AFB the radio buttons were still set from Biloxi. And going over Donner Pass, New Orleans came in clear as a bell. We could get the big powerful stations from New York up here at night. |
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On 4/24/2016 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:58:30 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 4/24/2016 1:12 AM, wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 16:05:49 -0500, amdx wrote: On 4/23/2016 1:37 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: I was reading the other day that most of the AM stations are being shut down or sold to special interest broadcasters. Affected is the first commercial radio station in the USA ... WBZ in Boston. I used to listen to 'BZ all the time as a kid ... Red Sox games and then Dick Summer and Larry Glick at night. Too bad to see them being shut down but they are another casualty of the Internet and technology. I listened to WBZ in the 80's and part of the 90s. I lived in Michigan at the time and WBZ came in very well in the evening. I enjoyed Larry Glick in the middle of the night, starting at 1 or 2 am. Glick had some hilarious skits. Anyone recall him calling the Hawaiian pay phone? I also listened to David Brudnoy earlier in the evening, around 10 or 11pm, Brudnoy was very intelligent and did more serious interviews. After I moved to Florida and got up an antenna, I only received WBZ very clear for about 30 seconds one evening and then never again. I sent a letter to them asking if the were going to put their programing on the internet, I got a response, "not at this time", some CBS rules as I understood it. Years later, I received an email saying their programing was now on the internet. They must have saved all the emails asking about internet programming. Sorry to hear they are shutting down. Good Memories. Mikek When I was in DC we went the other way and listened to Dick Biondi on WLS in Chicago. A good super het radio connected to a 100' antenna locked it in like it was local at night. We used to have one good AM talk station here that was all local during the day and went to syndicated shows like Dr Dean and that travel/money guy. The local show was good because it was mostly local stuff and they got the real guys on. I called in one day, talked to the Lee County DOT director and got the light at the end of my street retimed within a week. That was also where we heard the real story about James Billie (indian chief and casino manager) and the panther he killed. We also heard the real story about Reahart and his fight with Lee County that made it all the way to the steps of the SCOTUS who let his ruling stand (the government has to pay if they rezone your property) Both of them just quietly went away in the news. Rush Limbaugh killed local talk. He started giving his show away and it was cheaper than paying local people for a bigger audience. I looked and we have 16 AM stations that you might be able to hear. Half are spanish, 1 adult contemporary, 1 country, 2 news and the rest are sports talk. WBZ is one of the "clear channel" stations meaning there are very few other AM stations that broadcast near WBZ's frequency assignment. Last I knew it was a 50,000 watt station and at night it's signal is listenable over a good part of the country, especially the mid-west. I have a friend who occasionally co-hosts a call-in talk show on WBZ that runs from midnight to 5 am. She gets calls from listeners from Minnesota, Colorado and other states across the nation. Yup, when we were doing "AM DXing" there were 3 or 4 far away stations we could get at night if the atmospherics were right. I have picked up WLS on I-95 in the Carolinas while I was on my way to Florida. It is weird because it will pop up as clear as a bell and a while later it just fades away. The old Childrens Band worked that way too. Occasionally you would hear someone from 1000 miles away but they just came and went. Whether you could actually respond was another thing. (although it was technically illegal to do so) During the CB craze of the 80's I specifically bought a certain model base station sold through Radio Shack because it could be easily modified. When I finished the "mods", a push of a button could change the frequencies to what was called the "upper" set. No local chatter there. Of course you could only talk to someone who also had a modified radio. The other major modification was to increase the power output that could be controlled with an added external potentiometer. Straight AM went from the regulation 4 watts up to a max of 16 watts. Sideband could be adjusted from the regulation 12 watts PEP to about 30 watts. I used to be able to talk to a guy in Italy on Sunday mornings from our house on the shoreline of MA. At night I could talk to people as far away as CA. Skip, of course. |
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 13:03:12 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 4/24/2016 11:22 AM, wrote: Yup, when we were doing "AM DXing" there were 3 or 4 far away stations we could get at night if the atmospherics were right. I have picked up WLS on I-95 in the Carolinas while I was on my way to Florida. It is weird because it will pop up as clear as a bell and a while later it just fades away. The old Childrens Band worked that way too. Occasionally you would hear someone from 1000 miles away but they just came and went. Whether you could actually respond was another thing. (although it was technically illegal to do so) During the CB craze of the 80's I specifically bought a certain model base station sold through Radio Shack because it could be easily modified. When I finished the "mods", a push of a button could change the frequencies to what was called the "upper" set. No local chatter there. Of course you could only talk to someone who also had a modified radio. The other major modification was to increase the power output that could be controlled with an added external potentiometer. Straight AM went from the regulation 4 watts up to a max of 16 watts. Sideband could be adjusted from the regulation 12 watts PEP to about 30 watts. I used to be able to talk to a guy in Italy on Sunday mornings from our house on the shoreline of MA. At night I could talk to people as far away as CA. Skip, of course. I thought about buying a foot warmer for the one in my truck but I was never sure why I would want it. I really only used it for finding smokey and I didn't care about it, if he was 100 miles away. I did get to know a lot of the truckers running the I-95 corridor at night and I actually rescued a couple of them when they broke down on 270 or 495. Having that relationship was handy when I was making a midnight run to Florida ;-) My record was just a tad over 14 hours, Clinton to St Pete. (910 miles). The hammer was definitely down that night in my E-150. |
The good old CB days. When I bought my last CB radio which I still have I took it to a person who called himself Dr. Detroit. He would tune and tweak CB radios. I had him tweak mine. When he was finished I was putting out 29 watts just a few more than a marine VHF.
One night I was on the radio when a call came in. We chatted for about a half hour or so. I finally asked his 20 and he said some streets I had not heard of. Finally I asked him what city are you in. He said I am in St. Louis Mo. I was in Trenton Mi. We were about 500 miles apart. Of course it was at night and skip had to play into it but it was neat talking to someone that far away. As to Sirius/XM radio I do have it in my 2016 Ford Escape. Since every Detroit station that used to play 60's music has moved away from the oldies format having Sirius and the 60's or 6 station fill my need for music from those years. I plan to keep it but know that the price is very negotiable. A year ago before I traded in my Taurus I got a year for $59. I think the normal price is around $195 or so and I would never pay that much. I do have a USB drive loaded up with close to 1900 songs so if I get rid of Sirius I will have a way to listen to my music. |
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 01:32:20 +0100, RGrew176
wrote: I do have a USB drive loaded up with close to 1900 songs so if I get rid of Sirius I will have a way to listen to my music. I have found it is better to make up smaller play lists so you can pick what you want to hear right then. Think of it is just different radio channels. Depending on the capability of your player, that might be as simple as just putting them in different directories on one stick. The one in my car has 3 different media for MP3 so I exploit that. When I am running a DOS player I do it with batch files |
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 01:32:20 +0100, RGrew176 wrote:
The good old CB days. When I bought my last CB radio which I still have I took it to a person who called himself Dr. Detroit. He would tune and tweak CB radios. I had him tweak mine. When he was finished I was putting out 29 watts just a few more than a marine VHF. One night I was on the radio when a call came in. We chatted for about a half hour or so. I finally asked his 20 and he said some streets I had not heard of. Finally I asked him what city are you in. He said I am in St. Louis Mo. I was in Trenton Mi. We were about 500 miles apart. Of course it was at night and skip had to play into it but it was neat talking to someone that far away. As to Sirius/XM radio I do have it in my 2016 Ford Escape. Since every Detroit station that used to play 60's music has moved away from the oldies format having Sirius and the 60's or 6 station fill my need for music from those years. I plan to keep it but know that the price is very negotiable. A year ago before I traded in my Taurus I got a year for $59. I think the normal price is around $195 or so and I would never pay that much. I do have a USB drive loaded up with close to 1900 songs so if I get rid of Sirius I will have a way to listen to my music. I guess I lucked out. The original owner of my truck must have bought a lifetime subscription. Mine has been playing for five years now, and I've never heard from them. Only place to get 'Bluegrass Junction'! -- Ban liars, tax cheats, juvenile name-callers, and narcissists...not guns! |
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:25:00 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße
wrote: I guess I lucked out. The original owner of my truck must have bought a lifetime subscription. Mine has been playing for five years now, and I've never heard from them. Only place to get 'Bluegrass Junction'! -- .... and he forgot or just did not know he could transfer that to another receiver |
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:34:00 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote: On 4/25/16 10:35 AM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:25:00 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße wrote: I guess I lucked out. The original owner of my truck must have bought a lifetime subscription. Mine has been playing for five years now, and I've never heard from them. Only place to get 'Bluegrass Junction'! -- ... and he forgot or just did not know he could transfer that to another receiver Maybe that's why he got rid of the truck. :) I don't "get" the concept of Sirius unless you happen to live in a really ****ty media market with limited choices of radio programming or you don't have a little player that holds hundreds or thousands of your selections you can play through your car radio. My truck's radio came with about a half dozen of these subscription services pre-programmed that you have to sign up and pay for...not likely I'll choose any of them. These satellite radio stations are good for people who want to just hear music and not commercials. There are lots of different channels with some that just play obscure stuff like all Elvis, all Buffett or all Grateful Dead. I understand it for folks who are not willing to figure out the MP3 thing or just don't want to fool with it. BTW I am sure your truck has ports for a couple kinds of flash media and if you got the good radio it probably has a hard drive. I am not sure how big the drive is but the Dodge I rented ate 4 gig and didn't even bump the "gauge" off of empty. |
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On 4/25/16 2:47 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:34:00 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/25/16 10:35 AM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:25:00 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße wrote: I guess I lucked out. The original owner of my truck must have bought a lifetime subscription. Mine has been playing for five years now, and I've never heard from them. Only place to get 'Bluegrass Junction'! -- ... and he forgot or just did not know he could transfer that to another receiver Maybe that's why he got rid of the truck. :) I don't "get" the concept of Sirius unless you happen to live in a really ****ty media market with limited choices of radio programming or you don't have a little player that holds hundreds or thousands of your selections you can play through your car radio. My truck's radio came with about a half dozen of these subscription services pre-programmed that you have to sign up and pay for...not likely I'll choose any of them. These satellite radio stations are good for people who want to just hear music and not commercials. There are lots of different channels with some that just play obscure stuff like all Elvis, all Buffett or all Grateful Dead. I understand it for folks who are not willing to figure out the MP3 thing or just don't want to fool with it. BTW I am sure your truck has ports for a couple kinds of flash media and if you got the good radio it probably has a hard drive. I am not sure how big the drive is but the Dodge I rented ate 4 gig and didn't even bump the "gauge" off of empty. Ports it has, but I haven't probed deeply enough to determine if it has a hard drive. It also has a wireless charging pad for a cell phone and an AC electric receptacle in the bed. :) |
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:34:00 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/25/16 10:35 AM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:25:00 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße wrote: I guess I lucked out. The original owner of my truck must have bought a lifetime subscription. Mine has been playing for five years now, and I've never heard from them. Only place to get 'Bluegrass Junction'! -- ... and he forgot or just did not know he could transfer that to another receiver Maybe that's why he got rid of the truck. :) I don't "get" the concept of Sirius unless you happen to live in a really ****ty media market with limited choices of radio programming or you don't have a little player that holds hundreds or thousands of your selections you can play through your car radio. My truck's radio came with about a half dozen of these subscription services pre-programmed that you have to sign up and pay for...not likely I'll choose any of them. DC is a great media market, but the media is full of commercials. I'd rather listen to music without a commercial every two to three minutes. If I were you, I'd stick with your little player. -- Ban liars, tax cheats, juvenile name-callers, and narcissists...not guns! |
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On 4/25/16 4:19 PM, Keine Keyserschei�e wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:34:00 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/25/16 10:35 AM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:25:00 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße wrote: I guess I lucked out. The original owner of my truck must have bought a lifetime subscription. Mine has been playing for five years now, and I've never heard from them. Only place to get 'Bluegrass Junction'! -- ... and he forgot or just did not know he could transfer that to another receiver Maybe that's why he got rid of the truck. :) I don't "get" the concept of Sirius unless you happen to live in a really ****ty media market with limited choices of radio programming or you don't have a little player that holds hundreds or thousands of your selections you can play through your car radio. My truck's radio came with about a half dozen of these subscription services pre-programmed that you have to sign up and pay for...not likely I'll choose any of them. DC is a great media market, but the media is full of commercials. I'd rather listen to music without a commercial every two to three minutes. If I were you, I'd stick with your little player. -- The "media" is only full of commercials if you dial up a "commercial" radio station. I don't. I listen to two non-commercial "classical music" stations and WAMU for news and intelligent discussions. If I happen to not like the music selections available on the radio, I simply switch to the 30+ gigs of my favorite music on my iPhone, ranging from Aaron Neville to Wynton Marsalis, with thousands of alphabetical stops in between, including the Dillards. I think but I am not sure that the truck sound system will also play, via bluetooth, my favorite internet radio stations, which are also non-commercial. Haven't tried that yet. For my bluegrass break this morning, I was listening to Vivaldi's music for lute and mandolin. |
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On Monday, 25 April 2016 17:07:10 UTC-3, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/25/16 2:47 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:34:00 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/25/16 10:35 AM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:25:00 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße wrote: I guess I lucked out. The original owner of my truck must have bought a lifetime subscription. Mine has been playing for five years now, and I've never heard from them. Only place to get 'Bluegrass Junction'! -- ... and he forgot or just did not know he could transfer that to another receiver Maybe that's why he got rid of the truck. :) I don't "get" the concept of Sirius unless you happen to live in a really ****ty media market with limited choices of radio programming or you don't have a little player that holds hundreds or thousands of your selections you can play through your car radio. My truck's radio came with about a half dozen of these subscription services pre-programmed that you have to sign up and pay for...not likely I'll choose any of them. These satellite radio stations are good for people who want to just hear music and not commercials. There are lots of different channels with some that just play obscure stuff like all Elvis, all Buffett or all Grateful Dead. I understand it for folks who are not willing to figure out the MP3 thing or just don't want to fool with it. BTW I am sure your truck has ports for a couple kinds of flash media and if you got the good radio it probably has a hard drive. I am not sure how big the drive is but the Dodge I rented ate 4 gig and didn't even bump the "gauge" off of empty. Ports it has, but I haven't probed deeply enough to determine if it has a hard drive. It also has a wireless charging pad for a cell phone and an AC electric receptacle in the bed. :) Heard someone talking about those pad cellphone chargers on the telly. Thought they said Apple IPhones don't work on them unless you buy a separate 'case'??? |
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On 4/25/16 4:40 PM, True North wrote:
On Monday, 25 April 2016 17:07:10 UTC-3, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/25/16 2:47 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:34:00 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/25/16 10:35 AM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:25:00 -0400, Keine Keyserscheiße wrote: I guess I lucked out. The original owner of my truck must have bought a lifetime subscription. Mine has been playing for five years now, and I've never heard from them. Only place to get 'Bluegrass Junction'! -- ... and he forgot or just did not know he could transfer that to another receiver Maybe that's why he got rid of the truck. :) I don't "get" the concept of Sirius unless you happen to live in a really ****ty media market with limited choices of radio programming or you don't have a little player that holds hundreds or thousands of your selections you can play through your car radio. My truck's radio came with about a half dozen of these subscription services pre-programmed that you have to sign up and pay for...not likely I'll choose any of them. These satellite radio stations are good for people who want to just hear music and not commercials. There are lots of different channels with some that just play obscure stuff like all Elvis, all Buffett or all Grateful Dead. I understand it for folks who are not willing to figure out the MP3 thing or just don't want to fool with it. BTW I am sure your truck has ports for a couple kinds of flash media and if you got the good radio it probably has a hard drive. I am not sure how big the drive is but the Dodge I rented ate 4 gig and didn't even bump the "gauge" off of empty. Ports it has, but I haven't probed deeply enough to determine if it has a hard drive. It also has a wireless charging pad for a cell phone and an AC electric receptacle in the bed. :) Heard someone talking about those pad cellphone chargers on the telly. Thought they said Apple IPhones don't work on them unless you buy a separate 'case'??? Yes, the current iterations of the iPhone don't work with the pad chargers. There are adapter and cases, but the reviews of these I've seen are mixed. The iPhone 7 probably will allow the use of a pad charger, but...I don't know whether that means it will work through the sort of heavily padded iPhone case I prefer. |
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:28:58 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote: the 30+ gigs of my favorite music on my iPhone, ranging from Aaron Neville to Wynton Marsalis, with thousands of alphabetical stops in between, including the Dillards. I think but I am not sure that the truck sound system will also play, via bluetooth, my favorite internet radio stations, which are also non-commercial. Haven't tried that yet. Bluetooth from the radio on the phone should work. I will suggest that you see about putting your favorite music right into the truck system. You should be able to break it out into different play lists to make that more manageable. ~6,000 songs may be great for bragging rights but it is not very user friendly. If you are linked to he phone, it will still mute/stop the playback while you are on the phone. It can also read your texts to you and it can let you voice to text back if it is like the Samsung to Lincoln connection my wife has. |
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:59:09 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote: On 4/25/16 4:52 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:28:58 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: the 30+ gigs of my favorite music on my iPhone, ranging from Aaron Neville to Wynton Marsalis, with thousands of alphabetical stops in between, including the Dillards. I think but I am not sure that the truck sound system will also play, via bluetooth, my favorite internet radio stations, which are also non-commercial. Haven't tried that yet. Bluetooth from the radio on the phone should work. I will suggest that you see about putting your favorite music right into the truck system. You should be able to break it out into different play lists to make that more manageable. ~6,000 songs may be great for bragging rights but it is not very user friendly. If you are linked to he phone, it will still mute/stop the playback while you are on the phone. It can also read your texts to you and it can let you voice to text back if it is like the Samsung to Lincoln connection my wife has. It does do two-way texts...learned that by accident. I'm really taking it slow with the technology, since it has been a while since I drove a truck, and though I've had pickups before, this one is pretty big and coupled with the six speed manual, driving it properly requires a bit of attention. :) I have had a stick all of my life. It is second nature to me. I will say, you will find yourself doing the "cabbie speed shift" after a while, skipping 3 of those six speeds unless you are hauling a trailer or something. I end up using all 5 in my Prelude but not in order. |
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On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 6:50:24 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:59:09 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/25/16 4:52 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:28:58 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: the 30+ gigs of my favorite music on my iPhone, ranging from Aaron Neville to Wynton Marsalis, with thousands of alphabetical stops in between, including the Dillards. I think but I am not sure that the truck sound system will also play, via bluetooth, my favorite internet radio stations, which are also non-commercial. Haven't tried that yet.. Bluetooth from the radio on the phone should work. I will suggest that you see about putting your favorite music right into the truck system. You should be able to break it out into different play lists to make that more manageable. ~6,000 songs may be great for bragging rights but it is not very user friendly. If you are linked to he phone, it will still mute/stop the playback while you are on the phone. It can also read your texts to you and it can let you voice to text back if it is like the Samsung to Lincoln connection my wife has. It does do two-way texts...learned that by accident. I'm really taking it slow with the technology, since it has been a while since I drove a truck, and though I've had pickups before, this one is pretty big and coupled with the six speed manual, driving it properly requires a bit of attention. :) I have had a stick all of my life. It is second nature to me. I will say, you will find yourself doing the "cabbie speed shift" after a while, skipping 3 of those six speeds unless you are hauling a trailer or something. I end up using all 5 in my Prelude but not in order. My Boxster was a six speed, but I never did the skip-shift in it. There's good evidence that lugging an engine in too high a gear is really bad for it, as it puts excessive loads on the internals. Besides, the Boxster made some good music when revving, even if you weren't getting on it hard. Too much fun. I got lazy so the last two cars, the 'vette and the Audi, have both been autos. Faster anyways, and with the 8 speed in the Audi, it's always in the correct gear to scoot. In sport mode it's very entertaining. :) |
Serious Annoyance...
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:48:33 -0700 (PDT), Its Me
wrote: On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 6:50:24 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:59:09 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: On 4/25/16 4:52 PM, wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:28:58 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: the 30+ gigs of my favorite music on my iPhone, ranging from Aaron Neville to Wynton Marsalis, with thousands of alphabetical stops in between, including the Dillards. I think but I am not sure that the truck sound system will also play, via bluetooth, my favorite internet radio stations, which are also non-commercial. Haven't tried that yet. Bluetooth from the radio on the phone should work. I will suggest that you see about putting your favorite music right into the truck system. You should be able to break it out into different play lists to make that more manageable. ~6,000 songs may be great for bragging rights but it is not very user friendly. If you are linked to he phone, it will still mute/stop the playback while you are on the phone. It can also read your texts to you and it can let you voice to text back if it is like the Samsung to Lincoln connection my wife has. It does do two-way texts...learned that by accident. I'm really taking it slow with the technology, since it has been a while since I drove a truck, and though I've had pickups before, this one is pretty big and coupled with the six speed manual, driving it properly requires a bit of attention. :) I have had a stick all of my life. It is second nature to me. I will say, you will find yourself doing the "cabbie speed shift" after a while, skipping 3 of those six speeds unless you are hauling a trailer or something. I end up using all 5 in my Prelude but not in order. My Boxster was a six speed, but I never did the skip-shift in it. There's good evidence that lugging an engine in too high a gear is really bad for it, as it puts excessive loads on the internals. Besides, the Boxster made some good music when revving, even if you weren't getting on it hard. Too much fun. I got lazy so the last two cars, the 'vette and the Audi, have both been autos. Faster anyways, and with the 8 speed in the Audi, it's always in the correct gear to scoot. In sport mode it's very entertaining. :) You can do a 1-3-5 if you are just bumping the car down the road without lugging the engine. All those gears are for aggressively driving where you want to hold it in the power band at different speeds. You should be double clutching if you are serious about getting to a lower gear and making a smooth downshift transition. I did dabble in a little racing about 45-50 years ago but I outgrew it. In those days it was English sports cars. They just laughed at my Corvette. |
Serious Annoyance...
I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a lot of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree
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Serious Annoyance...
Tim
"I run through town in 3rd on my Guzzi. Get it out on the road and a lot of times I'll do the 1-3-5 Dom a dead stop. Lugging isn't good. I agree " Did you get to any of the Chicago vs St. Louis playoff games? No Canadian teams to cheer for this year. |
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